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Correction: A content analysis of Canadian influencer crisis messages on Instagram and the public’s response during COVID-19

BMC Public Health volume 22, Article number: 1848 (2022) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 15 April 2022

Correction: BMC Public Health 22, 763 (2022)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13129-5

In the original publication of this article there was an error in some of the excel formulas and they pulled from the wrong data.

This caused errors in the below locations:

  • Result section

  • Discussion section

  • Table 5, 6 and 7

This doesn’t have a large impact on the results/conclusions, as the cell values were correct, it was the reporting of the percentages. There was no real consistency among the values across the various influencer types and their use in the captions and images, so the interpretation of the results remain the same.

The original article has been updated to correct these errors. The affected sections are shown in Additional file 1 (yellow highlight).

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  1. Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G2W1, Canada

    Melissa MacKay, Caitlin Ford, Taylor Colangeli, Jennifer E. McWhirter & Andrew Papadopoulos

  2. School of Computer Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G2W1, Canada

    Daniel Gillis

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MacKay, M., Ford, C., Colangeli, T. et al. Correction: A content analysis of Canadian influencer crisis messages on Instagram and the public’s response during COVID-19. BMC Public Health 22, 1848 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14203-8

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